Citing 'Biological Truth,' Kennedy Issues Guidance Recognizing Only Two Sexes

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Source: New York Times

Citing 'Biological Truth,' Kennedy Issues Guidance Recognizing Only Two Sexes

The new guidance follows President Trump's demand that the Health and Human Services Department align with his executive order barring transgender athletes from women's sports.


This administration is bringing back common sense and restoring biological truth to the federal government," Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement. Eric Lee/The New York Times

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Feb. 19, 2025
Updated 6:40 p.m. ET

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday that the Trump administration had adopted a set of official government "sex-based definitions" to give the public and federal agencies precise terms with which to describe categories including "male," "female," "woman" and "man."

The definitions are listed in a one-page "guidance" that is aimed, in part, at keeping transgender women and girls out of female sports, discouraging gender-affirming care for young people and fulfilling President Trump's pledge that the federal government will recognize only two sexes: male and female.

"This administration is bringing back common sense and restoring biological truth to the federal government," Mr. Kennedy said in a statement. "The prior administration's policy of trying to engineer gender ideology into every aspect of public life is over."

A male is defined under the guidance as "a person of the sex characterized by a reproductive system with the biological function of producing sperm." A female is "a person of the sex characterized by a reproductive system with the biological function of producing eggs (ova)."

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg covers health policy for The Times from Washington. A former congressional and White House correspondent, she focuses on the intersection of health policy and politics. More about Sheryl Gay Stolberg
https://www.nytimes.com/by/sheryl-gay-stolberg

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/us/politics/rfk-jr-hhs-sex-genders.html

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1. Millions of knuckle draggers will be thrilled

This and the pics of immigrants being shackled brings them joy.

[IA8IT]

2. Who's a good puppy? Bobby's a good puppy. Eat it raw you flying monkey

[Klarkashton]

3. We get this instead of lower grocery prices and lower

Inflation.

WTF is this all about? JFC with that mummified piece of shit.

[milestogo]

4. Citing Biological Truth, RFK Jr has brain damage from doing drugs

and harboring a brain worm, and it shows in his delusional, disordered thinking.

[mwooldri]

5. So about those folks who have both?

Or those folks that have neither reproductive system?

Or people who don't fit into the XX/XY chromosomes norms?

Or if life is defined at conception... We're all female at conception... What then?

This is a whole bunch of baloney, and this so called department of "health" clearly has indicated from science. And reason.

While gender is a societal construct, sex is clearly more complicated than binary male/female.

[jeffreyi]

9. Like, multiple variations of xy and xx

Xyy, xxx, xxy, etc. etc.
What a dick this guy is.

[Shipwack]

6. Who's going to ask the questions?

Is a woman who has had a hysterectomy or had her vagina removed (or born without them) still a woman?

Is a man who has lost his testicals (or born without them) still considered a man?

Next thing you know Trump will sign an executive order making pi = 3.1.

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7. Curious, what is the international Olympics rules regarding this?

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8. Biological Truth

There are numerous animals that change sex. What the fuck is this asshat talking about?

[LudwigPastorius]

10. Roadkill Bob is Trump's pathetic factotum.

I never thought I'd see a member of the Kennedy family happily carrying buckets of shit for a bunch of fucking Nazis.

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11. Robert Fucking Kennedy Jr.'s advanced degree in genetics

makes him supremely qualified to put this guidance into effect.

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13. Maybe RFKJr should read this.

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